Title: 梅ちゃん先生
Title (romaji): Umechan Sensei
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Drama
Episodes: 156
Broadcast network: NHK
Broadcast period: 2012-April-02 start
Air time: Mon-Sat 8:15

Cast

Horikita Maki as Shimomura Umeko
Shimomura Family
Takahashi Katsumi as Shimomura Kenzo
Minami Kaho as Shimomura Yoshiko
Baisho Mitsuko as Shimomura Masae
Mimura as Shimomura Matsuko
Koide Keisuke as Shimomura Takeo
Yasuoka Family
Matsuzaka Tori as Yasuoka Nobuo
Kataoka Tsurutaro as Yasuoka Kokira
Oshima Yoko as Yasuoka Kazuko
Jounan Women Medical School
Tokunaga Eri as Sawada Yayoi
Kurokawa Tomoka as Sudo Yukiko
Nishihara Aki as Segawa Noriko
Shiratori Kumiko (白鳥久美子) as Sonoda Emi
Others
Tsurumi Shingo as Tachibana Yozo
Narimiya Hiroki as Yoshioka Satoshi
Uno Misako as Yabuki Akane
Mitsushima Shinnosuke as Yamakura Shinichi
Iwasaki Hiromi as Mikami Yasuko
Yamaguchi Tomoka (山口朋華) as Mikami Chieko
Nakamura Yuri as Setsuko
Tokui Yuu as the Munition Factory supervisor

Synopsis
The story is set in the devastated area of Kamata, Tokyo, in 1945 just after the end of the war. Horikita plays Shimomura Umeko, the youngest of three siblings whose father is a doctor at a university hospital. Compared to her outstanding sister Matsuko and brother Takeo, she lacks self-confidence, but an incident makes her determined to become a local doctor. However, her path is fraught with failures. --Tokyograph

+credits to dramawiki+